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Dear Bungie fans,
Yes, I was wrong back in 2011 when I believed that Bungie's next game was set on the moon. [url=http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=NL#/watch?v=EVekNsgUqn4]"That's no moon"[/url]was I told for teh lolz...
However in my [url=http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3818/moonpo.png]evidence[/url] that I used back then is a webcam picture of the Bungie team studying the moon.
I have to admit that I was trolling a little bit back then by spamming sloppy threats and watch ppl rant. I did that because I couldn't believe it either but an object above the earth kept coming back (the ads and even avatars).
My question: why was Bungie studying the moon?
[Edited on 12.01.2012 3:59 PM PST]

Depending on the object's size, any large body being acted upon by nothing but gravity in dead orbit, (best orbit) well within the Roche limit would at worst be ripped apart by the Earths tidal forces, or at best cause localized tidal anomalies like tsunamis on the surface.
In real life this thing would be quite scary.

OP, I think that the moon has either been replaced or transformed in Destiny. The tides, weather and many other things rely heavily on the moon. I guess maybe to make the game more "real", they'd maybe need to know the physics of the moon for the game?